Day Dreams

By Rudolph Valentino

To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword
of warning before you peruse the contents of this book.
I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither
poems nor prose. Just dreams - Day Dreams - a bit of
romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, not
studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest
of masters! . . . Nature!

While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly
kept from my preferred and actual field of activity, I took
to dreams to forget the tediousness of worldly strife and the
boredom of jurisprudence's pedantic etiquette.
Happy indeed I shall be if my Day Dreams will bring
you as much enjoyment in the reading as they brought to
me in the writing.

Rudolph Valentino

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Apr 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9783757837471

Rudolph Valentino

Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 - August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed »The Latin Lover«, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including »The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse«, »The Sheik«, »Blood and Sand«, »The Eagle«, and »The Son of the Sheik.« Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the »Latin Lover« (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the »Great Lover«, or simply »Valentino«. His early death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans, further cementing his place in early cinematic history as a cultural film icon. Wikipedia (English)

Book preview

To M.

The serenade of a thousand years ago

The song of a hushed lip

Lives forever in the glass of today

Wherein we see the reflection of it

If we but brush away

The cobwebs of a douting faith.

To J. C. N. G.

MY FRIENDS HERE AND THERE

CONTENTS

Introduction

Preface

The Gift Book

Nature

The Love Child

Heart Flower

You

Day Dreams

Suspicion

The Sage

Morphia

Domino

The Sphinx

Stradivarius

Extravaganza

Mirage

Glorification

Remembrance

Three Generations of Kisses

A Baby's Skin

Gratitude

Shadows

Accusation

Even Song

Gypsies

The Carrier

The School of Life

The Wanton

Slavery

Within a Wall

The Chalice

Solicitude

You

At Sunrise Tomorrow

Poverty

Cremation

The Lute

Powerless

Cap and Bells

Patchwork Quilt

To A. M.

The Philosophy of a Pessimist

Gems of Thought

To C. F.

Sympathy

Labor

Wealth

Understanding

Hunger

Money

The Choice

Italy

Erin

Bees

To M. T.

Imperialism

Radio

The Kaleidoscope of Love

Memorial

Dust to Dust

Lullaby Tree

Adage

Faithfulness

Reflections at Random

Cooperation

INTRODUCTION

I can not tell a rondelay

In words of yesterday

I can not tell a couplet

For words come as they may.

I'll do my best — I'll try a bit

Of ultra-modern rhyme

And cast aside the shackles

Binding »Once upon a time«.

PREFACE

To you, my gentle reader, I wish to say a foreword of warning before you peruse the contents of this book.

I am not a poet nor a scholar, therefore you shall find neither poems nor prose. Just dreams — Day Dreams — a bit of romance, a bit of sentimentalism, a bit of philosophy, not studied, but acquired by constant observation of that greatest of masters! . . . Nature!

While lying idle, not through choice, but because forcibly kept from my preferred and actual field of activity,